Current Group Members
 

Hamsa Balakrishnan (Principal Investigator)
William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MIT AeroAstro

Lindsey Blanks (SM Candidate, MIT ORC)
Research interests: Scheduling; Optimization; Space Operations.
 

Chris Chin (PhD Candidate, MIT AeroAstro)
Research interests: Air traffic management; Schedule optimization.
For more information (projects, interests, etc.) please see [full bio].

Lauren Craik (MST-MCP Candidate, MIT CEE and DUSP)
Research interests: Urban transportation planning; Equity analysis; Transportation economics.
For more information (projects, interests, etc.) please see [full bio].

Titilayo Fasoro (SM Candidate, MIT AeroAstro)
Research interests: Trajectory-based operations; Guidance, navigation, and control; Autonomous systems.
 

Siddharth Nayak (SM Candidate, MIT AeroAstro)
Research interests: Reinforcement learning; Autonomous and robust control.
 

Geoffrey Ding (SM Candidate, MIT AeroAstro)
Research interests: Multi-agent systems; Control; Game Theory
For more information (projects, interests, etc.) please see [full bio].

Victor Qin (SM Candidate, MIT AeroAstro)
Research interests: Optimization; Market Design; Reinforcement Learning; Space Systems

Staff

Esther Allen (Administrative Assistant)

Group Alumni

Thi Vu Phu (CDO S.M., 2008)

Blair Leake Negron (ORC S.M., 2009)

Anjuli Kannan (Harvard College, BA Computer Science, 2009)

Thomas Herold (ORC S.M., 2010)

Diana Michalek Pfeil (ORC PhD, 2011)

Varun Ramanujam (CEE PhD, 2011)

Juan Jose Rebollo (AeroAstro S.M., 2012)

Melanie Sandberg (M.S.T., 2012)

Ioannis Simaiakis (AeroAstro S.M., 2009; AeroAstro PhD, 2012)

Hanbong Lee (AeroAstro S.M., 2008; AeroAstro PhD, 2013)

Harshad Khadilkar (AeroAstro S.M., 2011; AeroAstro PhD, 2013)

Yi-Hsin Lin (M.S.T., 2013)

Eric Robinson (ORC S.M., 2013)

Hector Fornes Martinez (M.S.T., 2015)

Zebulon Hanley (ORC S.M., 2015)

Daniel Schonfeld (ORC S.M., 2015)

Michael Kasperski (AeroAstro S.M., 2015)

Jacob Avery (AeroAstro S.M., 2016)

Patrick McFarlane (AeroAstro S.M., 2016)

Yashovardhan Chati (AeroAstro PhD, 2018)

Takuya Kato (M.S.T., 2019)

Kai Ling Neo (M.S.T., 2019)

Christian Montgomery (AeroAstro S.M., 2020)

Sandeep Badrinath (AeroAstro PhD, 2021)

Matthew Koch (ORC S.M., 2021)

Simran Pabla (EECS MEng, 2021)

Karthik Gopalakrishnan (AeroAstro PhD, 2021)

Max Li (AeroAstro PhD, 2021)

Kwassi H. Degue (Postdoc, 2021)

Undergraduate Researchers

Anjuli Kannan (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)

Gregory Kravit (Summer 2012)

Hannah Lawson (Fall 2012)

Graham Davis (Spring 2015)

Armen Samurkashian (Spring 2015)

Max Li (UPenn; Summer 2017)

Dun Yuan Tan (Imperial College, Fall 2019 -- Spring 2020)

Azreen Zaman (IAP 2020 -- Summer 2020)

James Abel (Summer 2020)

Nadia Dimitrova (Jan 2020 -- May 2021)

Rukia Hassoun (Spring 2020 -- August 2021)

Akila Saravanan (Jan 2020 -- present)

Visitors

Markus Frey (Technische Universitaat Munchen, April -- October 2015)

Baris Baspinar (Istanbul Technical University, September 2018 -- September 2019)

Kwassi Degue (Polytechnique Montreal, February -- May 2020)